Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Science and the Goals Of Mobilization
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OCR Page 1 of 12SCIENCE AND THE GOALS OF MOBILIZATION
At the turn of this century the magazine, Scientific American, assessed the
progrees of seience and technology from 1850 to 1900. That summary sets a reveal-
ing beckfrop to this fiftieth anniversary celebration of the founding of Syracuse
University's great college of Applied Science. It also provides a yardstick to
measure seistrifie and technological advances since 1900.
"Recent progress in the electrical vorld," vrote the editors of Seientific
American in that year, "has been marked by steady advance along established lines.
Perhape the most striking development has been that of wireless telegraphy. Wire-
less nessages were sucresefully transmitted between ships of the British Navy
separated by 8o miles of water; decipherable messages were also dispatehed from
Cheimeford in England to Boulogne in France, over 110 miles of land and vater.
Marconi has done enough to establish the practical use of his system for certnin
specified vork. The Edison phonograph has become a familiar object in ouz modern
life. The great growth in popularity of the phonograph has ceused the mere vork
of manufacturing the recorda to assume truly enormous proportions
"Never vas there a time when so many and so vell-equipped expeditions were
abroed in the effort to fill in the blank spaces in the geography of the vorld.
Interest is divided pretty equally between the Arctic and the Antarctic regions-
with preferenee for the former. Peary is vell on his way to the North Pole
Unquestionably the greatest advance in transportation is that recorded in the field
of the automobile, which is evidently destined to et joy a pcpularity as great as,
and certainly more lasting than, the bicyc.le. The speed. of the automobile has
geen truly remarkable increase. Proof of this was shown in the nine-day raee
around France, in which the winner covered the distance in
an average speed of
about 32 miles per hour
VBy Barl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency,
Vashington, D.C., at 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Lyman C. Smith College
of Applied Science, Syraçuse University, Syracuse, New York, at 4:00 p.m., E.S.T.,
April 27, 1951.
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